Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:48
The Wright Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and Devices (CMPND) is funded through the Ohio Department of Development (ODOD), and has $19.5M working capital and $3M in operating funds. One very tangible result of this funding is the purchase of advanced research tools and equipment, which is transforming many research projects around the State into technically superior work.
The ODOD Third Frontier grant in May 2005 created the State’s first nanotechnology center, CMPND, as a Wright Center of Innovation (WCI). The grant supports CMPND’s efforts to develop new materials that will improve the strength and durability of components that will be part of automobiles, electronics, building construction and other manufactured products. CMPND includes a broad-based research, business and outreach program centered at The Ohio State University (OSU) with major regional sites at the University of Akron and the University of Dayton and more than 60 company collaborators across Ohio. CMPND’s efforts are also supported by the Ohio Polymer Strategy Council and PolymerOhio, and include collaborations with other WCI facilities across the State.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 19:29
Marketing tech
By Erinn Connor
With Permission from The Columbus Dispatch
Sharell Mikesell's office is at the end of a long gray hallway filled with laboratories. Look through any of the small lab windows, and there might be people in white head-to-toe hazmat suits, peering through microscopes.
The work going on in those labs, some of Ohio State University's micro- and nanotechnology laboratories, could be very important in the marketplace. But those researchers aren't in a position to leave their work to hobnob with folks in industry. That's where Mikesell comes in.
Mikesell is associate vice president of OSU's 6-month-old Industry Liaison Office, and his job is to link companies interested in new products and technologies with the appropriate researchers at Ohio State.
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Monday, 27 July 2009 19:39
Ohio Ranks Best in the Midwest and Among the Top Five States in the Nation for Job Growth in the Clean Energy Economy
A new report released by The Pew Charitable Trusts ranked Ohio number one in the Midwest and among the top five states in 2007 with the most jobs in clean energy, energy efficiency, and environmentally friendly production.
Overall, Ohio has experienced an overall job growth of 31 percent since 1998.
Factors leading to Ohio's advanced energy industry success include the Ohio Third Frontier and other advanced energy incentive programs, one of the nation's most aggressive advanced energy portfolio standards, a significantly reformed tax structure, a world class supply chain, and an available educated workforce.
Click here to learn about “The Clean Energy Economy” report by The Pew Charitable Trust.
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 16:33
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By John Nolan, Staff Writer
KETTERING — Community leaders on Monday, July 20, celebrated the startup of NanoSperse LLC, a new company that is providing nanotechnology for materials used to supply longer-lasting parts for the aerospace industry.
Art Fritts, president and chief executive officer of NanoSperse, said he licensed the technology from the University of Dayton in January 2004 and has worked since then to get the company under way.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 19:05
Zyvex Performance Materials (ZPM) of Columbus continues its winning ways by receiving a nod from the Ohio Department of Development’s Third Frontier Commission (ODOD TFC) that they are going to share a $4.9MM development grant with PolyOne Corporation of Cleveland and include Renegade Materials Corp., Hexion Specialty Chemicals, APV Engineered Coatings, the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), the University of Akron (UA), and Shawnee State University (Shawnee) as principal collaborators. The objective of this Research Commercialization Program (RCP) grant is to commercialize nanomaterial composites for marine, aerospace, defense, automotive, and electronics. Additional collaborators will include PolymerOhio, the Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and Devices (CMPND), the University of Akron, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Owens Corning, the National Composites Center, and Hexcel Corp.
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Monday, 27 July 2009 19:16
Reprinted with permission from The Columbus Dispatch
Sunday, July 12, 2009
By Erin Dostal
 Polylactic acid polymer, derived from corn, is melted down to be molded into plastic parts.
When Corey Linden became a father, he started thinking more about what he could do be green. So he stuck with what he knew: plastics. "I started thinking about sustainability," said Linden, a Battelle scientist. "What kind of future my kids are going to have." So three years ago, he began working with a team working on corn-based plastics.
Researchers have been studying corn-based (and other bio-based) plastics since the 1970s to compete with (and one day replace) traditional, oil-based plastics. But the natural products tended to be brittle and opaque. Cost is another problem. Oil-based plastic products are relatively cheap to make. Bio-based products can cost more to produce.
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